This volume investigates the English spatial preposition over and prepositions in general, frequently regarded as function words with little semantic content, a

Using a cognitive linguistics perspective, this book provides a comprehensive, theoretical analysis of the semantics of English prepositions. All English prepos

In Cognitive Linguistics, polysemy is regarded as a categorizing phenomenon; i.e., related meanings of words form categories centering around a prototype and be

This book explores the relationship between the 'sense' of the prepositions over, into and through and the combined 'form' of their preceding and following noun